EDC 430: Monday, September 24, 2007: Class 3 - How Do We Use Our Understanding of What to Teach to Begin Planning?

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Overview

We continue to prepare to plan instruction by synthesizing our knowledge about how students learn science into a set of learning principles, and analyzing some textbooks in light of some of these principles.

Learning Goals

Students will:

elaborate on ideas related to how students learn science paying particular attention to justifying the principle.
unpack national and state standards, including what does it really mean, what non-normative ideas do students hold regarding the learning, and what prior knowledge is necessary.
analyze curriculum materials related to a particular learning goals to determine how they engage students with representations and phenomena.

Agenda

Before the Bell <--- If you are waiting to get started, go here
Welcome/Announcements/Class Overview
Balls of Fury II
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Unpack a Standard to Prepare to Plan Instruction
- Resource: Unpacking a Learning Goal
Get ready to review a textbook for how it addresses a learning goal.
- What is wrong with textbooks?
- Resource: Project 2061 Criteria
- Resource:
  Curriculum_Eval_Assign.pdf
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Work in small groups to unpack a national or state standard (learning goal).
- Resource: National and State Standards
Share our unpacking efforts.
Design our curriculum evaluation format.
Revisit our Student Learning Principles

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Reading:
- ChiapettaKoballaCh3.pdf
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- Discrepant Events Demos Article.pdf
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